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Children in many neighborhoods are not supervised because their parents may be working long hours, using drugs, or have mental health issues. This unsupervised youth and teenage usually leads to juvenile crime. the incarceration of young prisoners in adult prisons has an extremely destructive effect. Young prisoners are more susceptible to negative influences than adults. Facing the reality of their lengthy sentence and potentially never going home makes them seek protection and try to fit in somewhere in their new world.

Juveniles who commit crimes have legal protections that include lighter sentencing than adults would receive in the same circumstances. so The only way to change the behavior of young prisoners is to provide them with the opportunity to gain insight into why they think and behave the way they do. If rehabilitation is the goal for teenagers who are tried and sentenced as adults, then prison is not the answer. There should be a different place for youth offenders. Prison is too violent, and the necessary programs that can contribute to young prisoners’ rehabilitation are underfunded. Rehabilitation is more possible in an environment that is conducive to education, where young prisoners can gain insight into their behavior to produce a positive transformation.Facing the reality of their lengthy sentence and potentially never going home makes them seek protection and try to fit in somewhere in their new world. Because a juvenile’s identity is still developing, he or she can potentially adopt negative behaviors that are the norm in a hostile prison environment. The fear of being victimized or assaulted produces a need for security, which leads many young prisoners to rely on gangs and weapons for survival. Young prisoners overwhelmed by feelings of helplessness and hopelessness cannot focus on changing their thinking and behavior, because they are focused on how to survive. Younger prisoners are also at a disadvantage because they are not as...

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...an article or a broadcast about juveniles committing crimes, but the
question is who is to blame for the juvenile delinquency of our society and how does
the criminal justice system punish these crimes committed by our nation's youth?
Juvenile delinquency is a violation of the law by a juvenile not punishable by death
or life imprisonment. The government follows a policy that no crime goes
unpunished. The controversy that surrounds courtrooms today is whether or not a
juvenile should stand trial as an adult and be punished like an adult for committing
serious offenses. One side believes that juveniles should be punished according to the
severity of the crime in which they committed. The opposition believes that juveniles
are too young and immature to understand the consequences of what he or she had
did wrong. So the question is should juveniles be punished as children or punished
as adults?
There are many theories as to the cause of juvenile delinquency, including
one's economic background, substance abuse, delinquent peer groups, exposure to
violence, availability of firearms and media violence, and lack of parental control
over children (Kortege). "It is ironic in America, today, one must have a driver's
license to operate a vehicle, a permit to own a gun and even a license to own a dog,
but one does not have to have parent...